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Farmers use high toxic insecticides in
their farm to eliminate pests and insects,
which spoil the crops and which affects
the farm's productivity. They use high toxic
insecticides as a strategy to kill pest
or insects very quickly. However, farmers
must realize that this way of doing agriculture
has got many harmful health effects to the
humans and to the environment. These are
the three reasons why farmers have to leave
the idea of using high toxic insecticide
and concentrate on organic insecticides/
pesticides, which are environmental friendly.
Reason 1 - Human Health problems
High toxic insecticides / pesticides can
cause serious health problems to human society.
High toxic insecticide can spread into the
air and cause health problems to the people
who are nearby the farm land.Especially,
people who are vulnerable to dust allergies
are mostly affected by this high toxic insecticides,
they can easily develop asthma or breathing
problems due to high toxic insecticide,
even the healthy person can get affected
by the application of high toxic insecticides
in farms.
Reason 2 - Environmental Problems
High toxic insecticides are really harmful
to the environment. These insecticides not
only kill the pests but also other innocent
species, which does not harm anything to
the crops and high toxic insecticides can
cause Soil, Water and air pollution affecting
the total environment. Air pollution can
happen when pests resist to the implementation
of insecticides, the farmer will use more
to eliminate the pests/insects and this
can cause air pollution. Birds and animals
are very much affected by the usage of insecticides.
Reason 3 - Soil Pollution
For all farmer's quality of the land is
the asset, the yield depends upon the quality
of the soil. Continuous usage of high toxic
insecticides can create soil pollution in
the long run. Because the yielded crops
will not have a high level of quality because
of the soil and the prices of the yield
can go low in the market because of the
quality.
Due to these reasons EPA has suggested
ways to do farming in an organic way, if
you adopt organic farming methods like using
neem
oil for killing pests and insects.
Organic farming helps you to get better
quality yield in the long run and also safer
to the environment.
Disclaimer: Views represented in
this article are not necessarily that of
Plasma Power.
Author: Adam Teaser - neem
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